The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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